Association of Lisp Users, Inc. (ALU) 04 August 2005
Board Meeting 22:00 hours GMT
Minutes Rev. 0
Meeting held telephonically with the following quorum of board members present:
Officers present: (V) = Voting member of the Board (NV) = Non-Voting
Ernst van Waning, Pres.(NV) Carl Shapiro, V.P.(NV) [22:17]
Peter Lindahl(V), Sec. Rusty Johnson, Treas.(NV)
Members present:
Peter Seibel(V) JonL White(V)
Absent:
John Adams, V.P.(NV) Roger Corman(V) Heow Eide-Goodman(V)
Kuroda Hisao(V) Nick Levine(V) Duane Rettig(V)
President Ernst van Waning began discussions at 18:15 GMT without a quorum
of voting members present.
Next meeting to be held 01 Sep, 2005 at 22:00 GMT. E. van Waning announced
he will be absent. C. Shapiro will chair the next meeting. P. Lindahl
will assist with scheduling the conference call.
Approval of previous meeting minutes was tabled due to lack of voting quorum.
Discussions:
E. van Waning wished to discuss questions concerning the Publications
committee versus a Public Relations committee. While no determinations
were made, several aspects of each committee were discussed. The purpose of
the Publications committee as stated in the previous meeting were to discuss
offline options for a formal publications policy of the ALU with the following
members: E. van Waning, P. Seibel, C. Shapiro, and P. Lindahl. A Public
Relations was not specifically delegated, but discussions were to continue
offline, via email.
Proceedings options: C. Shapiro mentioned contact with Franz concerning making
ALU proceedings available via the Franz Store. Carl also mentioned making
addenda available to bring the proceedings up to date, post-conference.
Previous Action Items:
Public Relations: What is the ALU? Discussions will continue via email.
Perforce: N. Levine is to order the licenses.
C. Shapiro reports completion of the Membership Bookkeeping script.
H. Eide-Goodman is to send email concerning Summer of Code to C. Shapiro.
P. Seibel requests green light to proceed with ALUY wiki contact. Green light
was given by C. Shapiro, concerning efforts on his end.
P. Lindahl reports previous minutes not online yet. Needs to re-educate self
with C. Shapiro for details on how to update without bringing site down.
R. Johnson will check with the Media Center at MIT.
R. Johnson and C. Shapiro are to submit balance sheet for ILC05 conference.
E. van Waning is to contact John Amuedo concerning his proposal.
Next ILC:
Locations mentioned: Cambridge, Berlin, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Paris and more.
So it comes down to "location, location, location" and "money, money, money".
One suggestion coming from Fritz Kunz at Franz is to organize an "elite"
program, by invitation only.
Website: C. Shapiro reports he is running out of steam. We need to find someone
to clean it up, make it more presentabel. Carl states he will restart the cron
job to generate zips, to be downloaded, so people can contribute modifications.
CVS (maybe Perforce) can be used by moderators to diff the submissions.
Without further discussion the assembly disassembled at approx. 23:10 GMT.
Peter Lindahl
ALU Secretary
Action items: (Previous items carried forward)
Ernst: Agenda items: Establish a delegation to investigate PayPal alternatives.
Pubs committee: Self, Peter S., Carl, and Pete L.
Moderate email discussion on PR issues, establish cmt. mission and seek
volunteers for committee.
Contact John Amuedo concerning his proposal.
Nick: Add "lisp-jobs" to ALU mailing lists.
Post ILC03 Proceedings announcement when ready. Update the msg
as appropriate to reflect any policy decisions (none yet).
Work with Carl to investigate using comp.org.lisp-users.
Order Perforce licenses as approved by the board.
Carl: Work on scripts for membership bookkeeping. Reported complete.
Work with Nick to investigate using comp.org.lisp-users.
Add Summer of Code text to website when received from Heow.
Assist Rusty with presenting ILC05 balance sheet.
Heow: Send Carl a piece of text concerning Summer of Code to be added to
the ALU website.
PeterS: Contact Drew concerning ALU wiki.
PeteL: Add minutes to website.
Rusty: Submit ILC05 balance sheet to the board, after coordinating with Carl.
Check with Media Center at MIT per your suggestion.